Fall 2011 Grade Watch

Those who filled out course evaluations will get access to posted grades on December 23rd. Those who didn’t fill out their course evaluations don’t get direct access until January 17th- but of course, your semester GPA is updated whenever one of your grades is posted. If you’re in the latter category, you can piece together what grade you received for each class if the class had a unique (for you) number of credit hours, or if you follow religiously which grades have been posted when. Currently, I know of no grades that have been posted. Please comment to this story when any of your fall classes have posted grades!

89 Responses to “Fall 2011 Grade Watch”

Just a heads up: Unless they’ve changed it from last year, 1Ls won’t get their grades until around the Jan 19 date, even if they did complete their evaluations. I know I did all my evaluations last year and still didn’t get any grades until around that date.

Here’s what I don’t get: my first exam was on the 10th. There are about 35 people in that class. There have been 13 business days since that date. To have all of your grades in for that class, you’d have to grade about 3 exams a day–is that a completely unreasonable amount of grading to expect? How long does it take to grade each exam? (This is not me being snarky–but is an actual question).

I don’t expect to receive my grade for my hundred-person class for another week or so, but feel like smaller classes should be able to get their grades in a timely fashion.

We go through this every damned year. Please stop checking Portal every day all day for your grades and relax. Stop blaming professors. Many of them have turned in your grades. But as mentioned here, there is no magic switch to load them. There are actual human beings in an office who do that. Who may very well not be lawyers. And may not think your grades are more important than the holidays. Today is the first day grades were even supposed to be available and it is also the first day any of those people loading those grades are probably back in the office. Since there are about 750 people to enter grades for for what, three to five classes per student, you cannot possibly expect them to be loaded.

Of course they are surprised: surprised for good, surprised for bad, it’s your first law school exam grade. There’s a curve, so it’s not a grand scale surprise. Don’t be that person who uses “surprised” as a covert way to brag about a high grade. And while I’m at it, for all you 1L’s thinking about it, don’t put your grades in a Facebook status update. Just don’t. You will forever be remembered not for the grade, but for an act so shameless.